Ian Jeffrey taught in the art department of Goldsmiths College at the University of London during the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1990s he lectured at the Central European University in Prague. In 1975 he organized and curated an exhibition of British photography, The Real Thing: An Anthology of British Photographs, 1840-1950, for the Arts Council of Great Britain. The same year Thames & Hudson published his Photography: A Concise History. In the 1980s he wrote for Alan Ross's London Magazine. In 1999 he assembled and introduced Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography for the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. He wrote The Photo Book for Phaidon in 1997, and expanded it in 2014. In 2008 Abrams, Ludion, Schirmer/Mosel and Thames & Hudson published his How to Read a Photograph. 'Fatal Praise: John Ruskin and the Daguerreotype' appeared in John Ruskin: Artist and Observer, prepared in 2014 by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, which also published his article 'Bohemian Odyssey: Josef Sudek's Publishing Projects' in a Sudek catalog of 2016.

FOREWORD PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1 SOUNDSCAPES 2 VOLKSDEUTSCHE IN POLAND 3 POLES AND JEWS 4 LOGISTICS 5 TRAVELS IN REAL POLAND 6 RESTPOLEN 7 FORTUNES OF WAR 8 VOLKSDEUTSCHE IN THE BALKANS 9 EMBLEMS AND INSIGNIA 10 WINSTON CHURCHILL 11 HITLER AT LARGE 12 DUNKIRK 13 TOMMIES 14 LES SÉNÉGAL AIS 15 OPERATION SEALION 16 TOUR DE FRANCE 17 BRAND NAMES 18 RUINS 19 CONQUERORS 20 FIGHTER ACES 21 KIDS 22 STAFF CARS 23 WEAPONS INSPECTION 24 VORMARSCH 25 ASSASSINATION 26 TARNOPOL 27 SAVAGERY 28 CONTEMPLATION 29 REAL LIFE 30 EPIC EVENTS 31 A HEAVENLY CITY 32 COMRADESHIP 33 PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE 34 TIME FRAMES 35 NEW TOPOGRAPHICS 36 METAPHYSICAL ART 37 HORSES AND CATTLE 38 SITUATION COMEDY 39 ARRANGEMENTS 40 HAPPENINGS 41 CURIOSITIES 42 ABSURDITIES 43 MUD 44 PORTRAITS 45 FAMILY LIFE IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE 46 COMRADES 47 ROUTINES 48 THE OUTSIDER 49 ARMY TRADES AND SKILLS 50 AN OLD SOLDIER 51 TANK LIFE 52 GRAVES AND BURIALS 53 LIFE AND DEATH 54 FLINTENWEIBER 55 COMMISSARS 56 JEWS AND PARTISANS 57 VICTIMS 58 CAPTIVES 59 THE OUTER LIMITS 60 WASTELANDS 61 LEADERS 62 STALINGRAD 63 CHARACTER STUDIES 64 OPPOSITION 65 A NEW GENERATION 66 THE ENDGAME 67 RETREAT 68 FINALE IN BERLIN BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS BIOGRAPHIES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IMAGE CAPTIONS AND ALBUM NUMBERS INDEX MAPS